The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-07-21
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The graves of Wendell Phillips and |
his wife. at Milton Center, are un-
marked by any monument whatever. |
If the natives of the Friendly Islands |
suffer from spreading liberation they |
have the limb cut off with sharp |
she'll.
A park of ninety-two acres has been
secured on the shore of Lake Ontario, |
near Niagara, for Canadian Chau- |
tauqUa.
Even English writers in English pa
pers assert that the Americans are the |
best dressed women at the Queens |
drawing-rooms.
Miriam Edison, daughter of the |
great electrician, is a pupil at Hills |
Riding Academy at Roseville, fash |
ionable suburb of Newark, n. j.
Lady Randolph Churchill, in a letter
TO a New York relative, says that she |
hopes to be in America with her hus- |
band for month or two this year.
Mrs. Langtry gives the best little |
dinners in New York, it is said; but |
she pays her cook more than a men, |
Der of the Cabinet gets for his services. |
The bronze figure of William Penn, !
to surmount the tower of the Philadel- |
phia public building, will be thirty-siX |
feet high. 1t viii take a year to COM
plete it.
Secretary Endicott has decided to do |
away with the practice of making mil |
itary prisoners carry heavy logs for |
punishment He considers the custom |
barbarous.
Petrified Holsters, CLAIMS, turtles and |
the like are found in great abundance |
in the Santa Catalina Mountains in |
Arizona at height of nearly ten thou |
sand feet above the level of the sea.
The Rev. John Il. Paxton of the |
West Forty-Second Street Presby- |
terian church breaches to congrega-
ton whose wealth aggregates over
5000, 100000. His salary Is $l2, 1000.
Mount Abram, in Franklin county,
Maine, is said to be visited by thun- |
der shower every day in summer, and |
lightning can be seen playing about |
its head at some time every warm day.
There is a beautiful uncertainty
about the value of the copper cents of |
Mexico. In Vera Cruz, for instance, |
it takes 104 of them TO make 81, while !
in Chihuahua ninety-iive will pass for |
81.
Millionaire Flood has recently in |
closed his San Francisco palace with
bronze fence which cost $50, 900, and |
he is now adding two large bronze |
gates, each weighing 1000 pounds, |
and which will cost $15,0 more.
The Mikado of Japan has issued a
decree enforcing the adoption of the |
European style of dress for japanese |
ladies. This order will not obHge |
ladies who sing in the "Mikado' opera |
to throw away their present outfits, |
however.
Donald G. Mitchell, pleasantly |
known TO many thousand American |
readers as TX Marvel" has wholly |
given over literary work, and is spend |
ing his quiet evening of life on a farm |
near New Haven, Conn. He is Ga |
years of age.
One of the most remarkable thefts !
on record is reported from Whatcom, |
Washington territory, where a thief !
stole an entire orchard, Just planted, |
hiding his work for a time by sticking |
willow twigs in the holes where the |
fruit trees had been.
Kate Claxton is said to be the most |
irrepressihle traveller on the road. |
Sitting up all night in freight car, or
getting ont of a burning hotel at |
o o'clock III the morning, is all the same |
to her. She is always pretty, fresh, |
Jolly and we'll Kate would make |
somebody a model wife.
The bttman hair varies in thickness
from 1850 10 1000 of aninch. Blonde |
hair is tbc finest and red the coarsest.
A German investigator finds that in |
four heads of HAN of equal weight the
red one contains about 10000 hairs. |
the black 103 900, the brown 109, 900, |
and the blonde 40, 600.
James Lick died in San Francisco
ten years ago, leaving in the hands Of |
trustees an estate of about So 900, 900, |
to be divided among various charitable |
and scientific societies. The estate
is yet unsettled. but the trustees have |
drawn over 100000 in salaries and |
have paid out nearly 100000 in law
yers fees.
A Chinese doctor in one of our north |
ern counties has treated a pneumonia !
patient by rubbing her chest with a hot |
dinner plate and piercing row of |
portfolios in her abdomen. The per |
forated patient died, though the doctor
says this old treatment of pneumonia |
was discovered in China $50 years |
ago.-Saaa FranciSc0 Alta.
Phillips Brooks declares that Web
ster, Lincoln, and Beecher were the |
three greatest Americans of the CEN |
tury. Now, the superstitious will |
please observe that each had seven let |
ters in his name, and, what is more |
remarkable, that three times seven are |
twenty-one, at which age Beecher. |
Webster, and Lincoln all attained their |
majority!-LJe
Paul Bremond left New York to seek |
his fortune in Texas more than forty
years ago. The Texas Central Rail |
road owes its origin and construction |
to his energy and ability. Mr. Bre-
mond IS now well advanced in age, but
still retains his activity. Mrs. Bre-
mond, his wife, is Southern woman |
who has made Il name as poet and |
writer of marked talent.
Miss Anita Lucille Couy. daughter
OF Buffalo Bill, is a beautiful brunei |
of p summers, is TALL has a pretty
figure, and is vivacious and well edu-
Gated. Her father telegraphed for her
to come to London the day after Queen |
Victoria paid the Wild West a roval |
visit When she arrived in New York
she received a letter from her father /
saying that she will be received at
court.
The wife Of a Nevada (Mo.) man
had ten young chickens almost big
enough TO fry. One day at noon a
hawk pounced down upon them and |
carried Off one. The hawk did not 90
far until a lot of crows got after him.
To the woman's surprise the next night
at roosting time the lost chicken came
up. 1t still bears the marks of the
hawk, but it is able to stand up to its
dough pile